Dual-Parameter Simultaneous Full Waveform Inversion of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Arctic Sea Ice

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Ying Liu, Mengyuan Liu, Junhui Xing, Yixin Ye
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: ground penetrating radar; full waveform inversion; dual-parameter inversion; Arctic sea ice; Arctic; Global warming; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15143614

With global warming, Arctic sea ice, as one of the important factors regulating climate, has put forward new requirements for research. At present, the ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a powerful tool to obtain the structure of Arctic sea ice. Traditional offset imaging techniques no longer meet research requirements, and the two-parameter full waveform inversion (FWI) method has received widespread attention. To solve the high nonlinearity and ill-posed problem of FWI, the L-BFGS optimization algorithm and Wolfe criterion of inexact line search were used to update the model. The parameter scale factor, multiscale inversion strategy, and total variation (TV) regularization were introduced to optimize the inversion results. Finally, the inversion of anomalous bodies with different scales and different physical parameters is carried out, which verifies the reliability of the proposed method for dual-parameter imaging of Arctic sea ice and provides a powerful tool for the study of Arctic sea ice.